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  • Railways under growing debt trap

    Railways under growing debt trap

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    Indian Railways (IR) has been mobilizing resources from freight traffic, passenger services, sundry sources, market borrowings, budgetary and extra budgetary support from the General Exchequer for its expansion, up gradation and modernisation. Borrowing arm of IR in the Ministry of Railways is Indian Railways Finance Corporation (IRFC). In addition, Ministry of Railways also mobilises loans…

  • एमएसपी कितना व्यावहारिक है?

    एमएसपी कितना व्यावहारिक है?

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    तीनों कृषि कानून के रद्द होने का रास्ता अब चूंकि प्रधानमंत्री ने स्वयं निकाल दिया है…. तो एमएसपी (MSP) पर कानून भी स्वयं प्रधानमंत्री ही लायें- अब मामला यहीं अटका हुआ है और संयुक्त किसान मोर्चा आंदोलन से पीछे नहीं हट रहा है। चूंकि मामला खेती किसानी का है, इसलिए इससे संबंधित कोई भी आंदोलन एक सामाजिक-…

  • Gross abuse of dreaded anti-terror law must end

    Gross abuse of dreaded anti-terror law must end

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    Implication of 102 persons under the dreaded anti-terror law in the recent communal riots in the BJP ruled Tripura state has put spotlight on the gross abuse of the UAPA (the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, 1967) as amended to date to suppress voices of dissent or banner of alarms against the repression of innocents. Tripura…

  • Indian Railways on cost cutting spree

    Indian Railways on cost cutting spree

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    Ministry of Railways has begun implementing a report on right sizing the workings of Indian Railways by reorganizing its public sector undertakings (PSUs) including Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) through mergers of some units and closure of some others to avoid overlapping and to cut costs to effect economy of scale in rail services to the…

  • Hunger Index May Have Limitations – But There’s More Than Enough Proof That India Has a Problem

    Hunger Index May Have Limitations – But There’s More Than Enough Proof That India Has a Problem

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    Amartya Sen once told Mahbub-ul-Haq, with whom he developed the Human Development Index (HDI), that he can “do a single, one-number indicator, but it will be vulgar”. Mahbub ul-Haq replied: “Do an indicator that is just as vulgar as the GNP, but which will tell you more about quality of life than the GNP.” Sen…

  • झारखण्ड के आदिवासियों का समाजवादी जीवन-दर्शन

    झारखण्ड के आदिवासियों का समाजवादी जीवन-दर्शन

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    सोवियत महल के विघटन के साथ ही समाजवाद का पतन शुरू हो गया और अब दुनिया के अधिकांश देशों से करीब-करीब विदा हो चुका है। संसदीय लोकतंत्र के आवरण में पूंजीवाद समस्त जगत में अपना पैंठ जमा चुका है। तथाकथित रूस और चीन जैसे साम्यवादी देशों से भी समाजवादी मूल्य गायब हो चुके हैं। मौजूदा…

  • Adverse effect of video games on children

    Adverse effect of video games on children

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    India is home to 430 million (43 crore) mobile video gamers presently and the user base is estimated to go up to 650 million (65 crore) by 2025, a latest report by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IMA) has revealed. Coupled with this, according to official sources, children’s compulsive addiction to video games and…

  • जेपी को अंतिम विदाई… [ पुण्यतिथि पर विशेष ]

    जेपी को अंतिम विदाई… [ पुण्यतिथि पर विशेष ]

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    उस दिन- आठ अक्टूबर 1979-  मैं मुजफ्फरपुर में था. मेरा परिवार तब वहीं था. हम एक दिन पहले पहुंचे थे. संघर्ष वाहिनी की राष्ट्रीय परिषद में भाग लेने. कनक (लिखना पड़ रहा है, भारी मन से- जो अब नहीं हैं) और शायद अंजली जी भी साथ थीं. तब तक कनक से रिश्ता महज मित्रता का…

  • A re-look at India’s broken healthcare infrastructure

    A re-look at India’s broken healthcare infrastructure

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    Covid-19 induced pandemic since early 2020 has brought untold miseries to India with unprecedented loss of lives, livelihood, loss of jobs, innumerable/unaccounted/undercounted deaths for shortages of medicines, for lack of oxygen, lack of beds, people dying on roads, on pavements of hospitals, black marketing of life saving drugs, black marketing of oxygen, indignity in deaths…

  • If Minerals Of Jharkhand Are Sold Like This, There Won’t Be Anything Left For Next Generation: Rahul Basu (हिन्‍दी अनुवाद सहित)

    If Minerals Of Jharkhand Are Sold Like This, There Won’t Be Anything Left For Next Generation: Rahul Basu (हिन्‍दी अनुवाद सहित)

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    Ranchi: Rahul Basu, Research Director at Goa Foundation, gave a public lecture on the topic Jharkhand’s minerals is our Jaydaad: how can we protect our family good? at Xavier Institute of Social Service, Ranchi on Thursday. “State government is not someone who owns the minerals but it is custodian of the minerals which needs to…

  • Nationalist sells the nation

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    With failed economic promises to misbegotten economic reforms, relentless communal polarization, the crushing of civil dissent and the destruction of citizen’s fundamental right to liberty, the nationalist (fascist) Union Government has tried everything in its quiver to shore up the image of PM as a superman of himself that he has tirelessly built over the…

  • मुस्लिम विरोधी घृणा का एक संगठन तंत्र है और उससे हममें से ज़्यादा को कोई ऐतराज़ नहीं

    मुस्लिम विरोधी घृणा का एक संगठन तंत्र है और उससे हममें से ज़्यादा को कोई ऐतराज़ नहीं

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    मुसलमान विरोधी घृणा से मुक्ति फ़ौरी राष्ट्रीय काम है. इसमें पहले ही 70 साल की देर हो चुकी है. अब और देर नहीं की जा सकती. अगस्त के महीने में यह नहीं हो सकता कि चीखें भारत के आसमान को ढंक लें: मुझे बचाओ और आप स्वाधीनता के बैंड बाजे के शोर से उन चीखों…

  • India on the 75th Independence Day

    India on the 75th Independence Day

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    India on completion of 74 years of the Independence from the British colonial rule on August 15, 1947 projects a very grim picture with all the public institutions corroded, hollowed out and dashed from within so much so that they cannot stand up to provide theneeded  checks and balances on the democratically elected Union Government…

  • Union Government not keen to enact anti-mob lynching law

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    Union Government in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is not keen to enact a law to prevent mob lynching and hate crimes in keeping with the judgment of July 17, 2018 by the Supreme Court of India in Tehseen Poonawala case. MHA maintains there is no direction in the impugned judgment to this effect,…

  • Privatisation of railways stadiums

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    Union Ministry of Railways has planned investment of Rs.11.43 lakh crore in railways by 2024-25 in which Rail Land Development Authority (RLDA), a regulator set up to develop unutilized, surplus railwayland and air space for commercial utilisation keeping in view the futuristic use for the railways own requirements on Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model to garner additional…